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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Capitalism drives dependance tho. Not a socialist but capitalism is terrible as well. Lemmy is created by free software and open source software enthusiasts. This means that code is public, its for everyone, and anyone can use it woth or without modification.

Some people think this is communism

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Capitalism drives dependance tho.

So much this. Capitalism does not provide innovative solutions. Capitalism is the idea that there is only one, universal solution to any problem: throw money at it. The fundamental objective of capitalism is to invent new and innovative problems to fit that universal solution.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of the devs has a guide on how to get into communism and which books to read on their GitHub. People think lemmy is communistic because the devs are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of the devs

People have very different opinions. The free software dev communities consist of many weird people as well. Many autistic ones, having other mental issues, and some sane people. But in the end all that matters is the software that they create. They are open and visible. Thoose people can't be corrupt like the proprietary corporations(facebook, google, reddit) as the anyone can see what the software exactly does. If the software does the job without tracking or doing malicious attempts on you like facebook or google, then its really good

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mean the lead dev. Dessaline

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

community property is a feature of socialism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Community property is also a feature of capitalism (the form of it in the USA).

Police stations, public parks, classified documents, national/state parks and conservation areas are examples.

I think 'community property' is a byproduct of having a functional community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nah those are socialist features within capitalism and are all under assault from the neolib privateers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

more like a prerequisite

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A robust and non-ideological non-profit sector is key to any form of healthy capitalist system. That should be an agreeable statement to anyone regardless of if they like or hate capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There are two main reasons that evangelicals oppose government social services. One: Communism bad (well, "socialism bad" now because they have to poison the well against European democracies now that USSR is gone). Two: If the government helps people, people will be less likely to seek help from evangelical organizations, which eliminates a huge way to market Supply Side Jesus to people. Eating in to evangelicals' ability to proselytize compellingly is therefore a non-starter.